Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When he decided to become a novelist, he planned a Balzacian series on the U. S. panorama. Critics jeered at his third novel (The Man Who Cannot Die}, and Author Williamson made up his mind "to get off my literary high horse, to come down to earth and express myself simply." A fierce worker, he could easily write two novels a year, fills in his time by writing children's books. With his second wife he moves restlessly about the world; at present they are in Portugal. "Dark as a gypsy, nervous as a cat," he talks flippantly...
...Jacobin," Benny hated and feared the way things were going in the U. S. "He wanted the people to govern themselves directly and express themselves explicitly. He wanted to see the disappearance from political life of all individual wills which were too strong, which could not yield to the desires of the masses." So he attacked Washington, vilified him to a fare-ye-well. Naturally Benny's enemies were legion. His rival journalist in Philadelphia, William Cobbett, expressed the settled opinion of the day when he called him "Printer to the French Directory, Distributor General of the principles...
...Danielian explained when reached late last night, "The suit is an attempt to frighten other publications from revealing the occult nature of the Associated Gas and Electric system and the oblique practices therein perpetrated. I have no further opinion to express. I wish, however, it were possible to sound out the feelings of the hundreds of thousands of investors who have been bewildered by the sophisticated use made of the corporate device...
...student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...
...student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject what ever...